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Jack the Ripper was a Polish hairdresser called Aaron Kosminski, according to
an author who claims to have identified the Victorian serial killer using
DNA evidence from a 130-year-old shawl.

Kosminski, a 23-year-old immigrant, lived in the East End of London and died
in an insane asylum more than a decade after five women were murdered around
Whitechapel in 1888. His name has often featured among the top suspects for
the killings.

Russell Edwards, who calls himself an “armchair detective”, claims to have
“categorically” identified Kosminski as the culprit, using evidence taken
from a shawl purportedly found next to the